[Freedos-devel] USB driver

2008-05-13 Thread Marco Achury
There is someone working on a free USB driver? This is really needed piece of software. I have look for some documentation about in the net, but is a very complex to me. I hope a strong programmer out there can help with this. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury www.geocities.com/marcoachury

Re: [Freedos-devel] USB driver

2008-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Marco, There is someone working on a free USB driver? This is really needed piece of software. USB-what driver? Saying USB driver is similar to saying driver for things running on electricity. I have look for some documentation about in the net, but is a very complex to me. I hope a

Re: [Freedos-devel] USB driver

2008-05-13 Thread Marco Achury
That I have in mind is mass storage, mainly flash memory stick. Is becomming very popular and have replaced the floppy in all the new equipments. Even some industrial machines have replaced the floppy with USB as data media. Boot from cd-rom is OK as emergency tool but is a static system where

Re: [Freedos-devel] USB driver

2008-05-13 Thread Tom Ehlert
That I have in mind is mass storage, mainly flash memory stick. Is becomming very popular and have replaced the floppy in all the new equipments. Even some industrial machines have replaced the floppy with USB as data media. Boot from cd-rom is OK as emergency tool but is a static system

Re: [Freedos-devel] Willing to help

2008-05-13 Thread Alain M.
Hi Claude, just an idea came to my mind: you could make a freash port of those common Unix utilities... IMHO it would be most welcome. Thanks for volunteering, Alain Claude (Wayne) Smith escreveu: I am an old time programmer - Programmed many things. At one time, I programmed most of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] USB driver

2008-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, Marco, That I have in mind is mass storage, mainly flash memory stick... Boot from cd-rom is OK as emergency tool but is a static system where you can't save your preferences or documents, will be better to have a portable USB system able boot on real or virtual machines as

Re: [Freedos-devel] Willing to help

2008-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! just an idea came to my mind: you could make a freash port of those common Unix utilities... IMHO it would be most welcome. I doubt that - disk space is not an issue today and MANY Unix utilities have been ported to DOS using DJGPP, the GNU C (gcc/g++) and LIBC for DOS, 32bit style :-).

Re: [Freedos-devel] Willing to help

2008-05-13 Thread Alain M.
lyricalnanoha escreveu: I dunno, I for one would still like to see a good *free* Bourne shell for 16-bit DOS. I came close but failed last time. No need to be 16 bits. 32 bits run very well in DOS, including FreeDOS. A recomened complinet would be OpenWatcom C++ In fact a few FreeDOS

[Freedos-devel] dir bug?

2008-05-13 Thread Marco Achury
Dear Sirs On ms-dos 6.22 using dir * is the same as use dir *.* On Freedos dir * is the same as dir *. Is a bug? The dir() function at euphoria language have the same error. I suspect this come from an Watcom library function. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: